2019 One Health One Planet™ Symposium
One Health and the Future of Food

Join hundreds of attendees in addressing the effects of food systems, habits and culture on human, animal and environmental health at the 2019 One Health One Planet™ Symposium to be held March 13 – 14, 2019 at Phipps. This year’s symposium theme is “One Health and the Future of Food”, as experts from healthcare, environmental, veterinary and other disciplines will share groundbreaking new insights on the human, animal and ecological impacts of food and diet, including large-scale agriculture, plant-based diets and diet trends, antibiotics and pesticides in foods and more. Organizational leaders, M.D.s, D.V.M.s, public health specialists, ecologists, scientists, researchers, students and anyone who is interested in exploring the intersection of human and environmental health are invited to attend. Together with our expert panelists, we will seek to answer these and other questions:

How do our diets impact human and environmental health?

How do our food systems affect environmental processes?

What are the agricultural impacts of climate change?

What are the direct impacts of plant-rich diets on human and non-human health?

How can the future of food embrace One Health solutions?

The Pennsylvania Medical Society designates this live activity for a maximum of 7.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the educational activity.

Full Agenda Now Available

A full agenda for this year's symposium, including abstracts and speaker bios, is now available for download.

Keynote Speaker: Frank B. Hu, M.D., Ph.D.

Optimal Nutrition for Personal, Population and Planetary Health

Dr. Frank Hu is Chair of Department of Nutrition and Fredrick J. Stare Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He serves as Co-Director of the Program in Obesity Epidemiology and Prevention at Harvard and Director of Boston Nutrition and Obesity Research Center (BNORC) Epidemiology and Genetics Core. Dr. Hu received his M.D. from Tongji Medical College in China and a Ph.D. in Epidemiology from University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Hu is the recipient of the Kelly West Award for Outstanding Achievement in Epidemiology by the American Diabetes Association in 2010. He was named the American Heart Association’s Ancel Keys Memorial Lecturer in 2018. He has served on the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Preventing the Global Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease, the AHA/ACC Obesity Guideline Expert Panel and the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, USDA/HHS. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, Diabetes Care, and Clinical Chemistry. Dr. Hu is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Abstract

Diet-related chronic diseases and the food production system’s environmental impacts are pressing threats to worldwide personal, population and planetary health. Fortunately, shifting current global dietary patterns towards high-quality plant-based diets could alleviate these health and environmental burdens. Compared to typical western diets with high amounts of animal products, healthy plant-based diets are not only more sustainable, but have also been associated with lower risk of chronic diseases such as obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. For personalized disease management and prevention, precision nutrition has the potential to offer more effective approaches tailored to individual characteristics such as the genome, metabolome and microbiome. However, this area of research is in the early stages and should not overshadow public health nutrition strategies, which have the power to improve health and sustainability on a larger scale. If widely implemented, interventions and policy changes to shift the globe towards healthy plant-based dietary patterns could be instrumental in ensuring future personal, population and planetary health.

About One Health One Planet™

We are seeing unprecedented changes in the earth’s environmental and physical processes. Climate change, air pollution, reduced availability of clean water, and persistent toxic chemicals threaten human, animal, and environmental health and well-being.

To build a shared interdisciplinary vision of “health” and serve as a catalyst for positive change, Phipps Conservatory brings together leaders to explore global and local environmental issues and their effects on human, animal and environmental health through the One Health Initiative. One Health is a movement that is forging a new level of collaboration among physicians, veterinarians, scientific-health and environmentally-related disciplines. Thought leaders from disparate fields promote strategies to expand interdisciplinary understanding and communication in all aspects of healthcare for humans, animals and the environment.

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